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Business Ethics: Case Studies and Selected Readings Edition 7 by Marianne M. Jennings EBOOK PDF Instant Download
Table of Contents
Brief Contents
Contents
Preface
New to This Edition
Unit 1: Our Ethics
Unit 2: Business and Ethics
Unit 3: Social Responsibility and Ethics
Unit 4: Company Culture, Individual Pressures, and Ethics
Unit 5: International Business and Ethics
Unit 6: Employment Issues and Ethics
Unit 7: Products and Ethics
Unit 8: Competition and Ethics
Unit 9: Government and Ethics
Unit 10: Nonprofits and Ethics
Finding and Studying the Cases and Readings
How to Use the “Ethical Common Denominators across Business Topics Chart”
The EDC Chart—Ethical Common Denominators across Business Topics
Supplements
Customized Selections of Case Studies and Readings
Acknowledgments
Unit 1: Ethical Theory, Philosophical Foundations, Our Reasoning Flaws, and Types of Ethical Dilemma
Section 1A: Defining Ethics
Reading 1.1: You, Your Values, and a Credo
Reading 1.2: The Parable of the Sadhu
Reading 1.3: What Are Ethics? From Line-Cutting to Kant
Reading 1.4: The Types of Ethical Dilemmas: From Truth to Honesty to Conflicts
Reading 1.5: On Rationalizing and Labeling: The Things We Do That Make Us Uncomfortable, but We Do T
Reading 1.6: The Slippery Slope, the Blurred Lines, and How We Never Do Just One Thing
Case 1.7: Hank Greenberg and AIG
Section 1B: Resolving Ethical Dilemmas
Reading 1.8: Some Simple Tests for Resolving Ethical Dilemmas
Reading 1.9: Some Steps for Analyzing Ethical Dilemmas
Case 1.10: The Little Teacher Who Could: Piper, Kansas, and Term Papers
Case 1.11: The Movie Ticket
Case 1.12: Puffing Your Résumé
Case 1.13: Dad, the Actuary, and the Stats Class
Reading 1.14: On Plagiarism
Case 1.15: Wi-Fi Piggybacking
Case 1.16: The Ethics Officer and First Class for TSA
Case 1.17: Speeding on the Job: Obeying the Rules: Why We Do and Don’t
Case 1.18: The Pack of Gum
Unit 2: Solving Ethical Dilemmas and Personal Introspection
Section 2A: Business and Ethics: How Do They Work Together?
Reading 2.1: What’s Different about Business Ethics?
Reading 2.2: The Ethics of Responsibility
Reading 2.3: Is Business Bluffing Ethical?
Section 2B: What Gets in the Way of Ethical Decisions in Business?
Reading 2.4: How Leaders Lose Their Way: What Price Hubris?
Reading 2.5: Moral Relativism and the Either/or Conundrum
Reading 2.6: P=f(x) The Probability of an Ethical Outcome Is a Function of the Amount of Money Invol
Case 2.7: Martha Stewart: Not Such a Good Thing
Case 2.8: On Leaving to Spend More Time with Family
Section 2C: Resolving Ethical Dilemmas in Business
Reading 2.9: The Areas of Ethical Challenges in Business
Reading 2.10: A Structured Approach for Solving Ethical Dilemmas and Trying Out Your Ethical Skills
Case 2.11: What Was Up with Wall Street? The Goldman Standard and Shades of Gray
Case 2.12: What Happens in Boulder Stays in Boulder: Cell Phone Alibis
Case 2.13: Travel Expenses: A Chance for Extra Income
Case 2.14: Do Cheaters Prosper?
Case 2.15: The Rigged Election
Case 2.16: West Virginia University and the Governor’s Daughter
Unit 3: Business, Stakeholders, Social Responsibility, and Sustainability
Section 3A: Business and Society: The Tough Issues of Economics, Social Responsibility, and Business
Reading 3.1: The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits
Reading 3.2: A Stakeholder Theory of the Modern Corporation
Reading 3.3: Business with a Soul: A Reexamination of What Counts in Business Ethics?
Reading 3.4: Appeasing Stakeholders with Public Relations
Reading 3.5: Michael Novak on Capitalism and the Corporation
Reading 3.6: Marjorie Kelly and the Divine Right of Capital
Reading 3.7: Schools of Thought on Social Responsibility
Case 3.8: Adelphia: Good Works via a Hand in the Till
Reading 3.9: The Regulatory Cycle, Social Responsibility, Business Strategy, and Equilibrium
Case 3.10: Fannie, Freddie, Wall Street, Main Street, and the Subprime Mortgage Market: Of Moral Haz
Section 3B: Applying Social Responsibility and Stakeholder Theory
Case 3.11: Whole Foods, John Mackey, and Health Care Debates
Case 3.12: Ice-T, the Body Count Album, and Shareholder Uprisings
Case 3.13: Baseball and Steroids
Case 3.14: Michael Vick, Dogs, Rush Limbaugh, and the NFL
Case 3.15: Dayton-Hudson’s Contributions to Planned Parenthood, and Target and the Bell Ringers
Section 3C: Social Responsibility and Sustainability
Reading 3.16: The New Environmentalism
Case 3.17: Herman Miller and Its Rain Forest Chairs
Case 3.18: The Death of the Great Disposable Diaper Debate
Unit 4: Ethics and Company Culture
Section 4A: Temptation at Work for Individual Gain and That Credo
Reading 4.1: The Moving Line
Reading 4.2: Not All Employees Are Equal When It Comes to Moral Development
Section 4B: The Organizational Behavior Factors
Reading 4.3: Why Corporations Can’t Control Chicanery
Reading 4.4: The Effects of Compensation Systems: Incentives, Bonuses, Pay, and Ethics
Reading 4.5: The Subprime Saga: Bear Stearns, Lehman, Merrill, and CDOs
Case 4.6: HealthSouth: The Scrushy Way
Case 4.7: Jett and Kidder, Leeson and Barings, Kerviel and Société Générale: Compensation-Fueled
Case 4.8: Royal Dutch and the Reserves
Reading 4.9: Stock Options, Backdating, and Disclosure Options: What Happened Here?
Case 4.10: FINOVA and the Loan Write-Off
Section 4C: The Structural Factors: Governance, Example, and Leadership
Reading 4.11: A Primer on Sarbanes–Oxley
Case 4.12: Bank of America: The Merrill Takeover, the Disclosures, and the Board
Case 4.13: Dennis Kozlowski: Tyco and the $6,000 Shower Curtain
Case 4.14: Bausch & Lomb and Krispy Kreme: Channel Stuffing and Cannibalism
Case 4.15: Enron: The CFO, Conflicts, and Cooking the Books with Natural Gas and Electricity
Case 4.16: Arthur Anderson: A Fallen Giant
Reading 4.17: The New Shareholder: Taking Over to Change the Culture
Section 4D: The Industry Practices and Legal Factors
Reading 4.18: If It’s Legal, It’s Ethical; and Besides, Everyone Does It
Reading 4.19: A Primer on Accounting Issues and Ethics and Earnings Management
Case 4.20: The Ethics of Bankruptcy
Case 4.21: The Ethics of Walking Away
Section 4E: The Fear-and-Silence Factors
Reading 4.22: The Options for Whistle-Blowers
Case 4.23: Beech-Nut and the No-Apple-Juice Apple Juice
Case 4.24: NASA and the Space Shuttle Booster Rockets
Case 4.25: Westland/Hallmark Meat Packing Company and the Cattle Standers
Reading 4.26: Getting Information from Employees Who Know to Those Who Can and Will Respond
Case 4.27: WorldCom: The Little Company That Couldn’t After All
Case 4.28: Bernie Madoff: Just Stay Away from the 17th Floor
Unit 5: Ethics in International Business
Section 5A: Conflicts Between the Corporation’s Ethics and Business Practices in Foreign Countries
Reading 5.1: Why an International Code of Ethics Would Be Good for Business
Case 5.2: Chiquita Banana and Mercenary Protection
Case 5.3: Transnational Shipping and the Pirates
Case 5.4: The Former Soviet Union: A Study of Three Companies: PwC, Ikea, and AES
Case 5.5: Product Dumping
Case 5.6: On Sweatshops, Nike, and Kathie Lee
Case 5.7: Bhopal: When Safety Standards Differ
Case 5.8: Nestlé: When Products Translate Differently
Case 5.9: Google, Yahoo, and Human Rights in China
Section 5B: Bribes, Grease Payments, and When in Rome . . .
Reading 5.10: A Primer on the FCPA
Case 5.11: Siemens and Bribery, Everywhere
Case 5.12: Salt Lake City, the Olympics, and Bribery
Unit 6: Ethics, Business Operations, and Rights
Section 6A: Workplace Safety
Reading 6.1: Two Sets of Books on Safety
Case 6.2: Sleeping on the Job and on the Way Home
Case 6.3: Cintas and OSHA
Section 6B: Workplace Loyalty
Case 6.4: Aaron Feuerstein and Malden Mills
Case 6.5: Plant Closings, Downsizings, Company Closings, Government Takeovers, Bankruptcies, and Pen
Section 6C: Workplace Conflicts
Case 6.6: JCPenney and Its Wealthy Buyer
Case 6.7: The Trading Desk, Perks, and “Dwarf Tossing”
Case 6.8: Docs, Pharmas, Medical Journals, Funded Research, and Pizza
Case 6.9: The Analyst Who Needed a Preschool
Case 6.10: Julie Roehm: The Walmart Ad Exec with Expensive Tastes
Section 6D: Workplace Diversity and Atmosphere
Case 6.11: English-Only Employer Policies
Case 6.12: On-the-Job Fetal Injuries
Reading 6.13: The Benefits of Diversity: Remarks of Doug Daft, Former CEO of Coca-Cola
Case 6.14: Seinfeld in the Workplace
Case 6.15: Toyota, the CEO, the Assistant, and Inaction
Case 6.16: Arizona Senate Bill 1070: Immigration Laws, Employers, Enforcement, and Emotion
Section 6E: Workplace Privacy and Personal Lives
Case 6.17: Facebook MySpace, and YouTube Screening of Employees
Case 6.18: Bloggers, Chat Rooms, and E-Mail: Your Employer Is Watching
Case 6.19: Jack Welch and the Harvard Interview
Reading 6.20: Is It None of Our Business?
Section 6F: Workplace Confrontation
Reading 6.21: The Glowing Recommendation
Reading 6.22: The Ethics of Confrontation
Case 6.23: Ann Hopkins and Price Waterhouse
Section 6G: Workplace and the Environment
Case 6.24: Exxon and Alaska
Case 6.25: BP: Pipeline, Refinery, and Offshore-Drilling Safety
Unit 7: Ethics and Products
Section 7A: Advertising Content
Case 7.1: Joe Camel: The Cartoon Character Who Sold Cigarettes and Nearly Felled an Industry
Case 7.2: Spring Break, Beer, and Alcohol on Campus
Case 7.3: Cheerios and Cholesterol and Rice Krispies and Immunity
Case 7.4: Subprime Loans—The Under-the-Radar Loans That Felled a Market
Case 7.5: Hollywood Ads
Case 7.6: Kraft, Barney Rubble, and Shrek
Case 7.7: Craigslist and Ad Screening
Section 7B: Product Safety
Reading 7.8: A Primer on Product Liability
Case 7.9: Tylenol: Decades of Dilemmas
Case 7.10: Merck and Vioxx
Case 7.11: Ford and Its Pinto and GM and Its Malibu: The Repeating Exploding Gas Tank Problem
Case 7.12: Toyota: Sudden Acceleration or Bad Drivers or Pesky Floor Mats?
Case 7.13: E. coli, Jack-in-the-Box, and Cooking Temperatures
Case 7.14: Peanut Corporation of America and Salmonella
Section 7C: Product Sales
Case 7.15: Pfizer and the $2.3 Billion Fine for Sales Tactics
Case 7.16: The Mess at Marsh McLennan
Case 7.17: Frozen Coke and Burger King and the Richmond Rigging
Case 7.18: Slotting: Facilitation, Costs, or Bribery?
Section 7D: Contracts
Case 7.19: Intel and the Chips: When You Have Made a Mistake
Case 7.20: Sears and High-Cost Auto Repairs
Section 7E: Products and Social Issues
Case 7.21: The Mommy Doll
Case 7.22: Stem-Cell Research
Case 7.23: Toro and Its Product Liability Program
Case 7.24: Fast Food Liability
Unit 8: Ethics and Competition
Section 8A: Covenants Not to Compete
Reading 8.1: A Primer on Covenants Not to Compete: Are They Valid?
Case 8.2: Boeing, Lockheed, and the Documents
Case 8.3: Starwood, Hilton, and the Suspiciously Similar New Hotel Designs
Section 8B: All’s Fair, or Is It?
Reading 8.4: Adam Smith: An Excerpt from The Theory of Moral Sentiments
Case 8.5: The Coke Employee Who Offered Inside Information to Pepsi
Case 8.6: The Compliance Officer Who Strayed
Case 8.7: Jonathan Lebed: The Middle School Tycoon
Case 8.8: Simmons, Mervyn’s, and the Private Equity Firms That Bankrupt Them
Section 8C: Intellectual Property and Ethics
Case 8.9: Tiffany, Louis Vuitton, eBay, Landlords, and Knock-Offs
Case 8.10: Copyright, Songs, and Charities
Case 8.11: Microsoft vs. Google and “Snippets” of Books
Case 8.12: The Little Intermittent Windshield Wiper and Its Little Inventor
Unit 9: Ethics and Government
Section 9A: Government Employees
Reading 9.1: The Fish Bowl Existence of Government
Case 9.2: The Minerals Management Service: The Arms-Length Affairs with Oil Executives
Case 9.3: Kodak, the Appraiser, and the Assessor: Lots of Back Scratching on Valuation
Case 9.4: The Governor and a Senate Seat Vacated by a President
Case 9.5: The Man Who Writes the Internal Revenue Code Has Tax Issues: The Rangel Round-Up
Case 9.6: “I Was Just Following Orders”: The CIA, Interrogations, and the Role of Legal Opinions
Case 9.7: Paul Wolfowitz and the World Bank
Case 9.8: Hiding the Slip-Up on Oil Lease Accounting: Interior Motives
Case 9.9: Joe the Plumber, Child Support Records, and the Public Official’s Disclosure
Section 9B: Government Contracts
Case 9.10: Stanford University and Government Overhead Payments
Case 9.11: Yale University and the Compensation of Professors for Government Research: Double-Dippin
Case 9.12: Minority-Owned Businesses and Reality
Case 9.13: The My Tai Concession and the County Supervisor
Case 9.14: Government Pricing and Finding a Way Around It
Case 9.15: Taser and Stunning Behavior
Case 9.16: Boeing and the Recruiting of the Government Purchasing Agent
Section 9C: Government Responsibilities
Case 9.17: The Prosecutors Who Withheld Evidence: The Senator’s Trial
Case 9.18: The Duke Lacrosse Team and the Prosecutor
Case 9.19: FEMA, Hurricane Katrina, and the Dilemmas of Regulation versus Human Life
Unit 10: Ethics and Nonprofits
Section10 A: Nonprofits and Fraud
Case 10.1: New Era: If It Sounds Too Good to Be True, It Is Too Good to Be True
Case 10.2: The Baptist Foundation: Funds of the Faithful
Section10 B: Nonprofits and Management
Case 10.3: ACORN: Community Organizers, Undercover Videos, and Advice
Case 10.4: Giving and Spending the United Way
Case 10.5: The Red Cross, New York, and Ground Zero
Case 10.6: The Cornell Researchers Funded by the Foundation
Alphabetical Index
Business Discipline Index
Product/Company/Individuals/Subject Index
Topic Index
